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Category Archives: Abuse
Hear Howard Stern’s Filthy Perversion Of Dolly Parton’s New Audio Book
Click here to listen. Defamer reports: We really take no pleasure in informing you that two of our idols—early tickle-machine adopter Howard Stern and top-heavy country legend Dolly Parton—are currently at war, but such is the case. To get you … Continue reading
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Tagged apology, aristocrats, bob saget, country legend, dolly parton, filthy phrases, howard stern, jacuzzi, mdash, million years, perversion, pleasure, quot quot, trickery
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Monsey’s Yeshiva Of Spring Valley Fires Rabbi For Sexually Abusing Kids
The victims were under ten years of age. The firing happened a few weeks ago. It’s been kept hush hush at the Orthodox co-ed educational school. I want to learn more details before I publish the rabbi’s name. Oct. 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged co ed, educational school, fires, hush hush, Monsey, rabbi, spring valley, Yeshiva
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Teenage Girls Complained About Harassment From Father Bernie Ward
KGO reports on liberal former KGO talkshow host Bernie Ward who used to be a priest: Ward taught religion at both schools, coached the JV football team, and gained a reputation for flirting with teenage girls, even though he was … Continue reading
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Tagged bernie ward kgo, cardinal newman, different time, female students, flirtation, football team, intimate details, jv football, latorre, liquor store, misconduct complaints, priests, rosanne, schwab, sex life, sexual misconduct, teenage girls, time and place, ursuline high school, vice principal
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The Rabbi Who Raped His Daughters
Joe emails: Luke, Apropos the story in Austria…. There is an extremist rabbi by the name of…. He used to live in Monsey, NY and now resides in Bet Shemesh. He is part of the whole extremist Haredi scene in … Continue reading
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Tagged bet shemesh, extremist, period of time, rabbi
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Jewish author connected to Rabbi Hershy Worch’s former synagogue (Hamakom Synagogue) in Australia writes a book about an abusive Rabbi
Jewish Whistleblower writes: Jewish author connected to Rabbi Hershy Worch’s former synagogue (Hamakom Synagogue) in Australia writes a book about an abusive Rabbi who is "a charismatic US rabbi who rides into town on a page of Kabbalah, bringing with … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Hershy Worch
Tagged abuse of power, australian jewish news, authorit, enchantment, global dilemma, hershy, irresistible mix, jewish whistleblower, jewish youth, masters and disciples, mystical teachings, narrow confines, protagonists, psychological thriller, rabbi shlomo carlebach, Rabbis, rsquo, sweet melodies, Synagogue, zionism
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Rabbi Ephraim Bryks – Marriage Counselor
Vicki Polin writes: Case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks (Brooklyn, NY) – This makes me sick! www.theawarenesscenter.org/bryks_ephraim.html What more can we do to protect innocent people from becoming the next victim of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks? How is it that after all … Continue reading
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Tagged adult women, canadian broadcast network, child molester, civil suit, cult leader, life coach, marriage counseling, marriage counselor, media group, news media, public outrage, quot, rabbi, serial rapist, serious allegations, sexual abuse, sexual relations, suicides, term marriage, vulnerable individuals
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Painful Truths About Molestation
Baltimore Jewish Times publisher Andrew A. Buerger writes March 21, 2008: Some Catholic archdioceses even filed for bankruptcy when facing similar lawsuits. Despite having had some employees ruin children’s lives, the Catholic Church’s lobbying arm has waged an ugly campaign … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse story, abuse victim, archdiocese of baltimore, baltimore jewish times, bankruptcies, blogosphere, boston globe, caine, child sex abuse, credible sources, ferret, jewish community, maryland legislature, moral bankruptcy, news organization, painful truths, perpetrators, sexual abuse, slow pace, t rush
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I Can Name The Jerusalem Couple Accused Of Child Abuse
There’s a gag order in Israel against naming the couple but I am told they are David and Michal Shenbaum (nee Schwartz). Here’s my comprehensive report. According to an official Israeli document I was emailed (the entire database of the … Continue reading
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Who Are These Weird Child-Abusing Breslaver Hasidim?
Maven writes on Failed Messiah: This group was a fringe militant group that ran afoul of the law and all common sense a few years ago when they tried to blow up the Mosque. They have no Orthodox or other … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Elior Chen
Tagged common sense, economic situation, great thinker, Judaism, Kabbalah, kippa, maven, messiah, militant group, mosque, nonsense, opposition, psychiatric unit, psychopaths, psychos, reputation, schizophrenics, science education, son of sam, Torah, uzi, Yeshiva
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